Method and system for initiating communication via a communication network

• US 8,885,007 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2011
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: iWatchLife Inc.
• Original Assignee: iWatchLife Inc.
• Inventors: Murphy, William A.
• Primary Examiner(s): El-Zoobi, Maria
• Application Number:
  US13/198,156
• Publication Number:
  US 20120033027A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,195 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401- 1409
• US Class Current: 348/14.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4053 without floor control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

A method of communicating between a first user and a second user comprises using a first system to transmit, from the first user, a first signal for delivery to the second user. In particular, the first signal is transmitted via a first communication application. At least one of video, audio, and image analytics of electronically sensed data is performed to determine a presence of the second user at a third system. When the second user is determined to be present at the third system, the second user is provided with a first indication indicative of the first signal, the first indication being provided via a pervasive communication application in execution on the third system and other than the first communication application.

Claims

1. A method of communicating between a first user and a second user, comprising:

using a first communication application that is in execution on a first system, transmitting from the first system by the first user a first signal for delivery to the second user via a second communication application;

delivering the first signal to the second user via the second communication application when the second communication application is in execution on a third system that is associated with the second user;

performing by a processor of a second system at least one of video, audio, and image analytics of electronically sensed data to determine a presence of the second user at the third system when the second communication application is other than in execution on the third system; and

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in dependence upon determining that the second user is present at the third system, based on a result of the at least one of video, audio, and image analytics, providing the second user with a first indication indicative of the first signal, the first indication provided via a pervasive communication application that is in execution on the third system and that is other than either of the first communication application or the second communication application.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the first indication is provided at the third system.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the electronically sensed data are sensed at a location of the third system.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the second system and the third system are a same system.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one of video, audio, and image analytics comprises video analytics.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one of video, audio, and image analytics comprises comparing the electronically sensed data with template data associated with the second user.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein the template data comprises at least one of template voice data of the second user and facial image template data of the second user.

10. A method according to claim 8, wherein comparing comprises uniquely identifying the second user.

2. A method according to claim wherein the first signal is transmitted via a communication network between the first system and at least one of the second system and the third system.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the communication network is an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

11. A method of communicating between a first user and a second user, comprising:

associating the first user with a first system having a first processor for executing a first communication application;

associating the second user with a second system having a second processor for executing a second communication application;

using the first communication application in execution on the first system, transmitting from the first system to the second system via a communication network a first signal for delivery to the second user via the second communication application;

delivering the first signal to the second user via the second communication application when the second communication application is in execution on the second system;

using an electronic sensor, capturing at least one of video, audio and image data at a location of the second system when the second communication application is other than in execution on the second system;

comparing the captured at least one of video, audio and image data with template data relating to the second user; and

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in dependence upon identifying uniquely the second user based on determining a match between the template data and the at least one of video, audio and image data, providing to the second user a first indication indicative of the first signal, the first indication provided via a pervasive communication application that is in execution on the second system and that is other than either of the first communication application or the second communication application.

12. A method according to claim 11, wherein the communication network is an Internet Protocol (TP) network.

13. A method according to claim 11, wherein capturing comprises capturing video data, and wherein comparing comprises using a video analytics process to compare the captured video data with the template data relating to the second user.

14. A method according to claim 11, wherein capturing comprises capturing audio data, and wherein comparing comprises using an audio analytics process to compare the captured audio data with the template data relating to the second user.

15. A method according to claim 11, wherein comparing the captured at least one of video, audio and image data with template data relating to the second user is performed using at least a process in execution on the second processor.

16. A method according to claim 11, wherein comparing the captured at least one of video, audio and image data with template data relating to the second user is performed using at least a process in execution on the first processor.

17. A method according to claim 11, wherein comparing the captured at least one of video, audio and image data with template data relating to the second user is performed using at least a process in execution on a processor of at least a third system.

18. A method according to claim 17, wherein the at least a third system is a network server.

19. A method according to claim 17, wherein the at least a third system comprises a plurality of other user systems, and wherein comparing the captured at least one of video, audio and image data with template data relating to the second user is accomplished according to a peer-to-peer protocol.